Another version of Room 101
Continuing my discussion of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the function of violence, here’s the Room 101 scene from the American 1956 film version. Note that the story pretty closely follows the...
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Vintage Scans roundup
Just discovered the Vintage Scans blog. Unlike some vintage blogs, the author includes source information with his/her posts, which I appreciate as a historian. From Flirt, December 1949. From Frolic,...
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Don’t confuse your Sams or your Gargoyles
Vintage Sleaze has a fun tidbit of kink history. Sam Menning, an actor who also worked as a photographer, took fetish pics, including the great Betty Page. Menning eventually became the “house”...
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Vintage fetish magazine Fads and Fancies
The Vintage Sleaze blog has the story behind the Fads and Fancies fetish magazine, published in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and its signature artist known as Janine, actually a woman by the name of...
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The Irving Klaw vintage bondage photos
Researching the previous post led me to the Klaw Archives, focused on the Irving Klaw’s 1940s-1950s bondage photosets and short films.
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Another tale from the digest age of American vintage porn
According to a post on Vintage Sleaze, “Justin Kent” is a name that appeared on many American digests published in the 1950s, short novels with racy covers that promised more than they could deliver in...
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More on the Mishkin era of American vintage pornography
Jay A. Gertzman’s article “1950s Sleaze and the Larger Literary Scene: The Case of Times Square Porn King Eddie Mishkin”, in eI15 fanzine, provides an intriguing glimpse into the proto-BDSM scene of...
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Justice Weekly, Canada’s post-WWII fetish magazine
Being Canadian, I’m always interested in Canada’s contributions to the sexual edge of culture. I was delighted to stumble across the story of Justice Weekly, a true crime tabloid newspaper published in...
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Vintage Sleaze: The Rare Tana Louise
Vintage Sleaze has a post on Tana Louise, the premier fetish/bondage model before Bettie Page and girlfriend of bondage pioneer Lenny Burtman. The post ends with stating that the 1940s/1950s...
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“I never strike a lady in the usual sense of the word!”: vintage comics...
My Retrospace has a gallery of spanking scenes from vintage American comics. The examples are almost all male-dominant and female-submissive, and most make reference to parental discipline. I.e. that...
View ArticleSaved from the slave auction in Band of Angels
Band of Angels (1957), dir. Raoul Walsh, wri. Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts IMDB Wikipedia On the death of her father, Southern belle Yvonne DeCarlo finds out that her mother was one of her father’s slaves....
View ArticleProgress Report: Chapter 9, The Velvet Underground completed
Weighing in at 6,100 words, “The Velvet Underground” covers roughly 1945-1970, including the gay male leather culture; the fetish porn production business centered around NYC with artists like John...
View ArticleExcerpt from Chapter 9, “The Velvet Underground”
After the war, a generation of men returned home to peacetime. Whether due to awakened homosexuality in the all-male society of the military, or just a distaste for the new American dream of job and...
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Richard Foster’s The Real Bettie Page
Foster. Richard. 1998. The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups. Carol Publishing Group. I approached this book looking for information on the 1950s bondage picture and stag reel...
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Review: Gene Bilbrew Revealed, by Richard Perez Seves
GENE BILBREW REVEALED: The Unsung Legacy of a Fetish Art Pioneer (African American Artists Series) is the latest in Richard Pérez Seves’ series of biographies of fetish artists and publishers. Pérez...
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